ADAM Masterson

I’m headed out to Newark airport. Been given The Big Pink’s ‘A Brief History Of Love’ and Florence and the machine’s ‘lungs’ to listen to on the plane. Saw Florence play at Bowery Ballroom here in Oct and liked. Been listening a lot to Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’. Heard it once when it came out, but put it on me I-tunes recently and find myself listening to it over and over. Love ‘House of Cards’ and ‘Reckoner’. Also been listening to Jay-Z ‘The Blueprint 3′.

First time I heard ‘Empire State Of Mind’ was in the back of a New York Taxi, it had just come out and the driver had it on. I asked him to turn it up and he cranked it to the top, we were driving from Brooklyn into the city cross the Williamsburg Bridge. Won’t forget it.

Never listened to much music on the plane. Was sat next to Matt Tong the drummer from Bloc Party. What a lovely bloke, we chatted for most of the flight. We got a bunch of mutual friends and had been introduced a few years ago at a Zutons gig in London.

Matt said he’d been living in Berlin since then and was now residing in Brooklyn, he’s off to asia but will be passing through London in a couple of weeks and we’re gonna hang out.

Got straight into things in London. Met up with my flat mates at the Old Blue Last in Old Street. The So So Glows were playing checked out there set. Turns out there staying with us at our place. There from Brooklyn so it was kinda home from home. We went back to the Royal Oak, at one point this weekend there were 17 people staying over, there’s only meant to be six of us. Royal Oaks starting to look like the set of the young ones.

Adam